{"id":46595,"date":"2023-04-21T15:19:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/court-upholds-prison-sentence-against-nobel-winner-bialacki\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"court-upholds-prison-sentence-against-nobel-winner-bialacki","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/46595\/","title":{"rendered":"Court upholds prison sentence against Nobel winner Bialacki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>April 21, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> The Minsk City Court has upheld the prison sentence against Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Ale\u015b Bialacki.<\/p>\n<p> The Viasna center reports that Judge \u015aviat\u0142ana Bandarenka rejected his and his associates&#8217; appeals against sentence. <\/p>\n<p> Last month, a district court had sentenced the founder of Viasna to 10 years in prison. <\/p>\n<p> It also sentenced his deputy Valancin Stefanovi\u010d, vice president of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), to nine years, and U\u0142adzimir \u0141abkovi\u010d, coordinator of the Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections campaign, to seven years.<\/p>\n<p> \u0179micier Sa\u0142a\u016djo\u016d, an exiled human rights defender, was sentenced to eight years in absentia.<\/p>\n<p> The judge also ordered the human rights defenders to pay over 1.2 million rubels (some $475,000) in fines and compensation for alleged smuggling.<\/p>\n<p> Bialacki and his associates were tried for allegedly financing protests in Belarus and smuggling cash for their human rights work.<\/p>\n<p> The EU, USA and UN Human Rights Office condemned the trial as unfair.<\/p>\n<p>A state prosecutor appealed the wording of the ruling on \u0141abkovi\u010d. At today&#8217;s hearing, Bandarenka granted the request, without changing the prison term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 21, BPN. The Minsk City Court has upheld the prison sentence against Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Ale\u015b Bialacki. The Viasna center reports that Judge \u015aviat\u0142ana Bandarenka rejected his and his associates&#8217; appeals against sentence. Last month, a district court had sentenced the founder of Viasna to 10 years in prison. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-46595","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Court upholds prison sentence against Nobel winner Bialacki | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"April 21, BPN. 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